Churchtown Chatter Imagine ….. Believe….. Achieve Newsletter 26 - 2019

Have a Happy Easter Holiday

What a brilliant term we have had! There have been so many exciting things going on in school each week. Thank you to the children and staff for all working so hard and thanks also to parents for their continued support for the school and their children. We look forward to seeing you after the Easter holidays ready for the final term of the year.

Tag Rugby Winners It was a day to remember for our school Tag Rugby team as they were crowned Sefton Champions on Wednesday. They fought off competition from 14 schools to lift the trophy after an intense final that went to extra time. The children showed great resilience and teamwork to finish the match strongly and ensure that we won the competition. Congratulations to each of them for their hard work and effort.

S w i m m i n g G a l a Winners Fourteen of our children participated in the Schools Swimming Association Gala last week at Dunes Leisure Centre. Each swimmer displayed an excellent attitude throughout and gave their all for our school team. The results of this enabled the boys to come first in their competition, with the girls placing an extremely close second in theirs. Combining the results meant Churchtown were the overall winners for the Large Schools Gala and will therefore be progressing to the Regional Finals. Well Done to everyone involved!

Meols Cop Dance Festival Miss Morris was so proud of the children who performed in the Cop High School Dance Festival this week. Over the past 5 months they have been perfecting a dance coached by pupils from Meols Cop High School based around ‘Birds'. Their beaming smiles showed the audience just how much they enjoyed working on their dance and their hard work paid off as it was fantastic! The children were also thrilled to see Mrs Wilson in the audience cheering them on.

Author Visit Jude Lennon This week Year 3 enjoyed meeting a local children’s book author, Jude Lennon. They found out about the writing process and they loved hearing her read some of her stories! Well done to our winners of the Young Photographer Competition. They all attended an awards ceremony on Saturday 23rd of March in Southport and their photos will be exhibited in Wayfarers Arcade for two weeks.

Ziggy has been listening to Readers Ziggy met with his weekly reading group where they shared some lovely stories. He also met some new children in year 3 that he will be listening to over the weeks to come. Homework Projects - Being Healthy Thank you to everyone for supporting the homework projects. They have once again been an amazing success. The projects continue to amaze us, showing great creativity and excellent research - well done everyone! Easter Holiday Challenge 2019

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 22nd April is World Earth Find an Easter or Spring Get growing! Why not head outdoors day. Go to themed recipe and cook Plant some: for a Spring bike ride and Cress seeds to make egg www.earthday.org to find or bake a tasty treat. write a list or draw a heads, or picture of all of the out how you can do your Write down the Beans to watch the roots and different wildlife you bit. Research some facts ingredients and method leaves grow, or spotted on the way – and then make a poster to A sunflower and see how tall and take a picture before keep your eyes open for share what you have you eat it all! it grows? Send us a picture and a description of what you plants, flowers and found out. did. animals! Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7 April is the month for the Get crafty! Make a card, Take part in an activity at London Marathon, go for a gift or keepsake on a a Children’s University walk or jog and draw or Spring or Easter theme. Learning Destination and print a map showing the Try to use recycled write a 50 word review. route you took and how materials if possible and Don’t forget to check out far you went. Why not try be as creative as you can! our FREE App to help you to beat your time or find places to visit distance next time?

Collect extra Children’s University credits during the Easter break by completing this challenge. Each activity is worth 1 credit. When you take evidence of your activity to your teacher or send it to your local Children’s University. This could be a photograph, video, a work sheet, or writing! Send it to [email protected]

Reading Lottery Winners

A huge well done to all of you for your hard work reading at home this half term. We have had hundreds of raffle tickets sent to the office and are excited to announce the names of the winning raffle tickets. Well done to everyone who was nominated for the value of FUN & HAPPINESS this half term, there were a lot of you! The four Junior Chef winners for this half term are:

Jack Birtwhistle Adams - 1PC Daisy Stevens - RIW, Alfie Lancaster - 1C, Kitty Keeley - Lucy Crookes - 1C 2D, Chloe Hobbs - 2MT, Hubert Wojciechowski - 3DW Sam Beigan - 3B Charlie Townson - 3A, Ewan Mckee - Jones - 4S Zac Bentham - 6C Ella Darby - 4HW, Isabel Davies - 5D, Maliha Hassan- 5V, Harvey Gilchrist - 6C, They will be baking with Mrs Rimmer in the kitchen after Lily Morris - 6SM Easter All the names of the nominated children are on the website Congratulations to all of the children whose names under Latest News. have been drawn out. They visited Broadhursts Bookshop on Thursday this week. The Reading Lottery has started again already for another 12 people to be picked out before May half term Make sure you are in it to win it - keep reading at home !!! Premier Sports Clubs Mon 22nd April Bank Holiday - school closed

Tues 23rd April INSET Day - School Closed

! Book now for the Summer Term" Wed 24th April Term starts - Rise and shine school starts at ten to nine

Breakfast Club After-School Club (07:50 – 08:50) (15:20 – 16:20) Wed 24th April Class photographs for Reception , Y2 and Y6 Tuesday Gymnastics Athletics Gymnastics (23rd April – All Years Rec– Y2 Y3 - Y6 16th July ) Mon 29th April Y3 swimming starts Wednesday Tennis Football Football (24th April - 17th All Years Rec– Y2 Y3 – Y6 Mon 29th April Y5 Victorian Wow Day July)

Mon 6th May Bank Holiday - school closed Thursday Fitness and Tennis (25th April - 18th well being Gymnastics Y3 - Y6 July) All Years Rec– Y2 Mon 13th May Y6 SATs week

Summer Term - Morning clubs or after achool clubs do not run Mon 20th May Y1 & 2 Science shows during half term They do however provide a holiday club Tues 21st May Y5 & 6 Science Shows Morning sports clubs cost just £2.50 per child, per day and after-school clubs cost just £3 per child, per day. Wed 22nd May Y3 Camp

Get in touch to book clubs now. Wed 22nd May Y1 Play Hurry they book up fast! https://www.premier-education.com/sport Thurs 23rd May Y3 Camp Tel :01953 499040 or go to the school website - About Us - Premier Sports Thurs 23rd May Y1 Play Before and After School Clubs - this will link you directly to the Premier Sports website. Fri 24th May INSET Day - School Closed

Wed 5th June Y2 Trip to Blackpool Zoo

Mon 10th June 1.30pm - School Forum

Fri 21st June PTA Mufti

Mon 24th June Sports week - more detail to follow

Thurs 27th June Y4 Animal Workshop

Wed 3rd July Y5 visit to Stanley

Thurs 4th July Games

Year 6 Dates

Friday 5th July Y6 Performance at The Atkinson St Cuthberts Road, Southport, Merseyside, Friday 5th July Y6 After Show Party & Leavers Disco PR9 7NN Tel: 01704 508500 Fax: 01704 508501 Thursday 18th July Y6 Trip - Visits TBC www.churchtown.org.uk Tuesday 23rd July 9.30 am - Y6 Leavers Service at St Cuthberts